Improvement in fire-arms



D. MOORE.

Breach-Loadig'g Fire-Arm.

N.FEERS, PMOT-UTMOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. I.'y v.

4691 l l 1 Pateneed Feb l19, 1861.

NiTnD STATES DANIEL MOORE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN FIRE-ARMS.

Specilication forming part of Letters Patent No. 3 l ,473, dated February 19, 1861.

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL MOORE, ofBrooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented, made, and applied to use a certain new and useful Improvement in Fire- Arms; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of my said invention, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, wherein- Figure l is a vertical section of the barrel of my nre-arm, with the stock opened by the removal of the side plate. Fig. 2 is a plan with the handle or stock turned aside and the parts ready for loading, and Fig. 3 is an elel vation endwise of the barrel.

Similar marks of reference denote the same parts.

My invention relates especially to pistols adapted to the pocket, although some of the parts might be applied to larger {ire-arms.

There have been several fire-arms in which the barrel and stock could be turned aside from each other in order to load, and there have also been slides for entering and withdrawing a flanged metallic case for the cartridge. My invention does not apply, broadly, to these operations, but relates to a manner of constructing the joint between the barrel and the stock, so that they can be turned for introducing the cartridge, or entirely separated, when desired.

My invention also relates to a peculiar mechanism for conveying the iianged metallic cartridge into the barrel or withdrawing the exploded base.

In the drawings, a is the barrel, and bis the stock.

c is a gudgeon setting into a semicircular notch in a projection below the barrel, Aand d is a spring confining said gudgeon to its place, but allowing the parts to separate when turned aside and the-gudgeon drawn out from beneath the spring. o

l and 2 are ribs and grooves on the barrel and stock, formed on a curve from the gudgeon c, so that when the stock and barrel are turned together these parts l and 2, in connection with the head formed on the gudgeon c, insure great strength of connection, at the same time allowing for turning the parts ou said gudgeon ,c for giving access to the rear end of the barrel a, when desired, or separat` ing the two by drawing the gudgeon out laterally from beneath the spring d, if the barrel has to be entirely removed from the stock.

The cartridge which I make use of is formed with a anged metallic case, as represented at c, and is exploded by the blow from a needle or pointstriking the rear end in any usual manner. In order to convey .this cartridge into the pistol or draw the same out, or remove the base of an exploded cartridge,I make use of the slide fi, formed as a fork from the sole-piece 3, said fork sliding in grooves in the :sides of the barrel. The sole-piece 3 is formed with a semicircular recess to take the flange of the cartridge, and also with a hole to pass the explodinginstrument. These parts are shown in Fig. 2 as drawn back to receive the cartridge, and in Fig. l as pressed forward, ready for the cartridge to be fired, in which position the sole 3 sets into the rear end of the barrel and sustains the whole of the rear end of `the cartridge, being itself supported against the explosion by the front face of the stock b. f on the pin 4, and' g is the mainspring acting on the bridle 7a to the tumbler of thehammer. Y 7c is the trigger on the pin 5, and provided with the spring, as usual.

Zis the needle or point that explodes the cartridge. rIhis is formed as a screw, so that any wear on the point can be compensated, or the point caused to project farther from the hammer, if required, for striking the cartridge.

It will be seen that the stock b is extended down, as at 6, to contain the trigger, the object of this being to enable the party to grasp the whole stock in his hand without having to enter some of his iingers between the trigger and handle part, as has heretofore been usual. By this mode of constructing the stock I am able not only to protect the trigger, but also contract the whole stock into a space just sufiicient for the hammer and mainspring in their most condensed form,thus making the pis tol much shorter and smaller than any implement heretofore constructed, at the same time the rmness of the grasp by the hand is not interfered with. In the grasping of the piece the foreiinger takes against the under side of Within this stock b is the hammer the barrel a and the gudgeon c, giving a firm 2. The slide i, formed as a. fork, and prograsp, While the trigger is discharged by the vided with the perforated sole-piece 3, and

middle finger of the hand. selnitcireular groove to take the flanged base What I claim, and desire to secure by Letof the cartridge, as set forth.

ters Patent, is- As Witness my signature this 26th day of l. The gudgeon c, provided with a head, November, 1860.

and taking the seniicircular notch in the pro- DANL. MOORE.

jeotion from the barrel, in combination with Vitnesses:

the spring d, and the ribs and grooves l and LEMUEL W. SERREL,

2, for the purposes and as specified. THos. GEO. HAROLD. 

